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Article: Reading reform in Richardson's 'Clarissa.' (novel 'Clarissa, Or The History of A Young Lady' by author Samuel Richardson)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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A Wife at any time/Marriage will be always in my power ... When
I reform I'll marry.
Every-body said you were brave: Every-body said you were
generous. A brave man, I thought, could not be a base man: A
generous man could not, I believed, be ungenerous, where he
acknowledged obligation. Thus prepossessed, all the rest that my
soul loved and wished for in your Reformation, I hoped!